The guide for ketosis is stay under 30 grams of carbs…but what does 30g look like? Develop your intuition for health foods and sweets alike! — Read on perfectketo.com/30-grams-carbs/
What are Ketone and what do they do to the body? Read on for a full overview of ketones and their role in a ketogenic diet. — Read on perfectketo.com/what-are-ketones/
The Ketogenic Diet can boost your physical performance by burning fat instead of carbohydrates during exercise. Click here to learn more about Ketosis. — Read on perfectketo.com/use-ketogenic-diet-physical-performance/
Shirataki noodles have no calories, yet are very filling and full of healthy fiber. This is a detailed article about shirataki noodles and how to use them. — Read on http://www.healthline.com/nutrition/shirataki-noodles-101
Research has shown that low-carb, high-fat diets such as the keto diet can promote fat loss and improve certain health conditions. This article offers a keto diet meal plan and sample menu for one week. — Read on http://www.healthline.com/nutrition/keto-diet-meal-plan-and-menu
Believing these four myths might be holding you back. Director of coaching at trainright.com, Jason Koop has been guiding elite athletes for decades. His new book Training Essentials for Ultrarunning is a veritable goldmine of training knowledge. We caught up with coach Koop to talk about the book, which he says disproves widely held beliefs…
By nature, endurance athletes like to push their limits in an effort to improve. For some, that drive goes beyond simply doing their best and it becomes an addiction. This addiction can lead to many problems, both physical and mental, and can have very severe consequences. Often, it is a rigid and thin social aesthetic…
The issue of women specific Intermittent fasting seems to generally revolve around Hormone imbalance’s and fertility issues. Fatigue Depressed mood Bloating Headaches Irregular periods and fertility issues etc, some but not limited to. “I see it as the two sides of the same Coin” Refer article I just posted to highlight, from a Dr.Amy Shah,…
From article: Posted by Dr.Amy Shah, M.D., a double board-certified doctor who received her medical training from Cornell, Harvard and Columbia Universities. When I first tried intermittent fasting, I failed – miserably. The first day, I under at and couldn’t sleep all night from the hunger. The next day, I was tired, cranky, and grossly…
The amazing changes intermittent fasting does to your body and brain Stars like Beyonce and Hugh Jackman have spoken out about following intermittent fasting plans to get in shape. How does intermittent fasting work? We spoke with one of the leading neuroscientists in this field, Mark Mattson at the National Institute on Ageing Intramural Research…
Respiratory exchange ratio The respiratory quotient and the RER are both calculated as the ratio of the volume of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced to the volume of oxygen (O2) used, or VCO2/VO2. The respiratory quotient, which typically ranges between 0.7 and 1.0, is an indicator of metabolic fuel or substrate use in tissues; it must…
Not many people have a number named after them, but Robin Dunbar lays claim to the Dunbar Number. Confusingly, no precise value has been attached to this figure, but a commonly cited approximation is 150 – and this is the number of people with whom we can maintain a meaningful relationship, whether in a hunter-gatherer society or on Facebook.
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t…
In AD 65, Seneca the Younger was forced to take his own life by the Roman Emperor Nero. The reason for Seneca’s execution was his perceived involvement in a failed assassination attempt of the Emperor. He was made to sever his own veins while ingesting poison. Today, Nero is remembered as a tyrannical figure in…
The “runner” as a metaphor Literature about running has changed over the course of history. The short story “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” by Alan Sillitoe gave this genre a political perspective that changed the vision of a literary “runner”. Sillitoe’s character Smith uses running as a way to mentally reflect. Running gives…
The off-season is an ideal time to work on improving swimming technique. Whether you’re planning a break after a long season or preparing to ramp up your training for the next one, you may want to take the next few months to work on the checklist below—a list that can help you become a more…
I’m going to assume you’ve been successfully breathing for some time. You get enough oxygen into your blood to support your physiological requirements and power your limbs, organs, and muscles. You know how to inhale, and exhaling is a breeze. You even know how to breathe through your nostrils like a champ. In other words,…
The Origin of the Business Name “Iconoclasses”, has been asked on numerous occasions. We needed a name! So it is here I arrived – for no better reason! “Iconoclasses” synonymous, with Iconoclasm (People who engage in or support iconoclasm are called iconoclasts) a term that has come to be applied figuratively to any individual who challenges…
I bookmarked Good Vegan, Bad Vegan on Medium.
Increasing speed on the bike is a lot harder than it seems. To go one km per hour quicker in a 40km TT we need to find an extra 20 watts. To ride 1km/hour faster in an IM where we only ride at around 70% of our threshold power this means we need to improve…
How To Calculate Threshold Power, Heart Rate, Or Pace Cycling Functional Threshold Power (FTP): Your Functional Threshold Power is by definition the Normalized Power for an all out effort of 60 minutes. However, you can get a fairly accurate estimate of your FTP by doing an all out effort of 20 minutes, then subtracting 5%…
If You Race Slow, Who Cares If you think you are a slow, push that thought out of your mind. It’s detrimental to your progress. Being a “slow” runner is merely a state of mind. Don’t let that affect your running. When I first started working with age group and recreational runners in 2009, one…
John L. Parker’s Once a Runner follows a fictional elite collegerunner, Quenton Cassidy. Cassidy is a sub-4 minute miler, and Olympic Gold Medal contender who professes a “secret.” The secret is that there is no secret. There is simply a trial of miles and miles of trials. Every day we make choices and one of the…
No one likes to get that annual nasty flu or cold that lasts a week or more and comes roaring back just as you think you are getting better. Not a single person I coach or train with likes to miss training, not even a single day. But the reality is, sometimes you get that…
